There have been significant improvements in the ways in which we build software over the last fifty years two of which are worthy of note in the attempt to make software an asset we ve raised the level of abstraction of the languages we use to express behavior and we ve sought to increase the level of reuse in system construction. MDA takes the ideas...

Keep the bad guys away from your fortress while at the same time allowing access through the use of walls and guards. You will discover what each of these devices do and how you can create them for your own system....

Discover the role of Luther in the rapid building of customer support systems for Inmedius. You will see examples of wearable computers used by workers in the field and how the system based on J2EE is working toward continual innovation....

Luke Hohmann clarifies how the marketing and technical aspects of the software architecture system must work together to achieve business objectives.n...

You know that documentation is important but how much should you realistically document Discover how to weigh cost against benefit and gain the most from your software architecture documentation....

Bruce Powel Douglass provides a number of patterns to help organize manage use and share finite resources when building real-time and embedded systems....

To put it bluntly an architecture is a bet a wager on the success of a system. Wouldn t it be nice to know in advance if you ve placed your bet on a winner as opposed to waiting until the system is mostly completed before knowing whether it will meet ......

The root of most security problems is software that fails in unexpected ways. Although software security as a field has much maturing to do it has much to offer to those practitioners interested in striking at the heart of security problems....

Concurrent programs are incredibly difficult to debug. Race conditions are just the most security-relevant type of concurrency problem. In this chapter Gary McGraw and John Viega explore race conditions and their security ramifications. n...

This UML poster shows artifacts created and maintained at GDPro. UML diagrams are provided for class generalization multiplicities association interfaces parameterized class activity diagrams package diagrams use case diagram sequence diagram state diagram collaboration diagram and concurrent states....

Use cases are easily understood by users since they are essentially textual descriptions but lack the precision and the conciseness accomplished by the other diagrammatic tools of UML. Besides there is no systematic method that helps the designer to obtain such UML diagrams from a set of use cases. In this paper the authors present a diagrammatic...

Using UML in Architecture - Level Modifiability Analysis In this scenario-based method for software architecture-level modifiability analysis of business information systems the authors use architectural views to determine and express the effect of change scenarios. They distinguish four architectural views. They used the Unified Modeling Language...

This paper has clarified and extended UML solutions for describing system software structures and the deployment of software components on a hardware platform. This work has focused on the transition from a SDL specification to a concrete system. The architectural design concepts are introduced the SOON notation is presented the implementation concepts...

UML Component Diagrams and Software Architecture - Experiences from the WREN Project In the course of building Wren a component-based development environment the authors encountered several difficulties when they tried to use UML component diagrams for modeling software architectures. One the semantic interpretation of interfaces and dependencies...

Round - Trip Software Engineering using UML From Architecture to Design and Back The paper assesses UML s suitability for modeling architectural concepts and provides a framework for identifying and resolving mismatches within and across different UML views both at the same level of abstraction and across levels of abstraction. Finally the paper...